Well Read Column by Robert Weibezahl

"Like all children, I was born into the middle of a story I didn't know, and I was raised to be unknowing, tranquil in its center," observes Hong, the narrator of Lan Samantha Chang's shimmering pearl of a novel, Inheritance. "But glimpses of this story reached my eyes." From those glimpses, Hong pieces together the turbulent, multigenerational drama of her Chinese family in the years before...